ROUND ROCK, Texas — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 22, 2015 —
Dell today announced it continues to push the boundaries of
high-performance computing (HPC) and big data by unveiling the
PowerEdge
C6320, the latest addition in its 13th generation Dell
PowerEdge server portfolio. The PowerEdge C6320 delivers up to two times
performance improvement on the leading HPC performance benchmark(1),
and has the right mix of cost-efficient compute and storage in a
compact, 2U chassis for HPC and hyper-converged solutions and
appliances, allowing customers to meet demanding workload needs.

The PowerEdge C6320 optimizes the latest compute and memory technologies for demanding high performance computing, Web-tech and cloud computing environments (Photo: Business Wire)

The notion of aligning HPC and big data has steadily gained traction
over the past few years. As analytics and big data continue to be top of
mind for organizations of all sizes and industries, traditional IT
departments are considering HPC solutions to help provide rapid and
reliable information to business owners so they can make more informed
decisions. As Dell’s latest future-ready HPC solution, the Dell
PowerEdge C6320 helps power the discoveries and insights being made by
top research organizations and enterprises around the world.

Additionally, as hyper-converged systems such as
Dell
Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL and
Dell’s
XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances now make up the fastest
growing part of the overall converged infrastructure market, the
PowerEdge C6320 along with its embedded management software is an ideal
platform for these appliances. According to IDC, sales of
hyper-converged systems are expected to increase 116.2 percent in 2015
over the previous year to $806.8 million (USD). The market is expected
to experience a 59.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from
2014 to 2019, when it will generate more than $3.9 billion (USD) in
total sales(2).

The
PowerEdge
C6320 is designed to offer four independent server nodes in a 2U
chassis. Compared to the previous generation, it provides up to two
times the performance improvement on the LinPack spec(1), up
to 45 percent improvement on the SPECint_rate benchmark(3)
and up to 28 percent better power efficiency on the Spec_Power benchmark(4).
This allows customers to optimize application performance and
productivity while conserving energy use and saving traditional
datacenter space.

The PowerEdge C6320 features the latest generation of Intel Xeon E5-2600
v3 processors and provides up to 18 cores per socket (144 cores per 2U
chassis), up to 512GB of DDR4 memory and up to 72TB of flexible local
storage. In addition, the PowerEdge C6320 now comes integrated with
iDRAC8
with Lifecycle Controller. By leveraging iDRAC8, customers can
automate many routine management tasks and reduce the time and number of
steps to deploy, monitor and update their servers throughout their
lifecycle.

For the most demanding HPC and big data workloads, customers can pair
the PowerEdge C6320 with the accelerator-optimized
PowerEdge
C4130. As organizations are increasingly turning to GPUs for
workload acceleration, the PowerEdge C4130 is a GPU dense and flexible
rack server purpose-built to speed the most demanding workloads. The
PowerEdge C4130 delivers up to 33 percent better GPU/accelerator density
than its closest competitors(5) and 400 percent more PCIe
GPU/accelerators per processor per rack U than a comparable HP system(6).
The PowerEdge C4130 can also achieve over 7.2 Teraflops on a single 1U
server and has a performance/watt ratio of up to 4.17 Gigaflops per watt(7).

Dell PowerEdge C6320 powers Comet

Cometisa new petascale supercomputer designed to transform
advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity among
traditional as well as research domains. Deployed at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, Comet
includes 27 racks of PowerEdge C6320 compute nodes and is designed
to optimize capacity for modest-scale jobs. Totaling 1,944 nodes or
46,656 cores, Comet provides a five-fold increase in compute
capacity versus SDSC’s previous HPC system.